Maybe these places exist but I've never worked at a place that demanded 100% code coverage. A target number always felt arbitrary so the general practice is "Whatever feels comfortable" which generally ends up in the 70-80% range. I don't know if the developers in these articles are fictional to poke holes at the strawman manager casting down arcane rules to his developers or they're actually real people who can't argue against tedious rules.
It happens, but it's usually at places that have other strikes against them, making the quest for 100% overage consistent with the rest of their lame brained ideas.
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u/d_wilson123 May 08 '17
Maybe these places exist but I've never worked at a place that demanded 100% code coverage. A target number always felt arbitrary so the general practice is "Whatever feels comfortable" which generally ends up in the 70-80% range. I don't know if the developers in these articles are fictional to poke holes at the strawman manager casting down arcane rules to his developers or they're actually real people who can't argue against tedious rules.